Quotes About Leadership

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.